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Title Author Year
Purgatorio, Canto X Dante Alighieri 1867
Why Is the Color of Snow? Brenda Shaughnessy 2008
Red Slippers Amy Lowell 1916
Surreptitious Kissing Denis Johnson 1994
A Song for New Year’s Eve William Cullen Bryant 1864
Third Charm from Masque of Queens Ben Jonson 1609
The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke David Lehman 1986
Last Supper Charles Wright 2005
homage to my hips (audio only) Lucille Clifton 1983
Love Poem Gregory Orr 2002
Sentimental Education Mary Ruefle 2000
Memento Mori Maya C. Popa 2026
I Talk Black Lady Brion 2018
New Tradition/新传统 Evan Wang 2026
From “Fungi of Yuggoth” [XIV. Star-winds] H. P. Lovecraft 1930
Ode to the Coyote Mateo Quispe 2024
My Grandmother’s Love Letters Christian Campbell 2025
A Serenade Pierre Dupont 2025
Self and Life George Eliot 1884
If I Was President Hamza Mohamed 2024

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